If you thought Sony Screen Gems’ Resident Evil franchise was about a hot chick in a slinky dress who discovers sexier fetish wear with every new sequel, you are apparently wrong. The series actually has something to do with an evil corporation and a viral outbreak… if this new featurette is to be believed.
I saw each flick in the theater and I don’t recall any of that. I do remember seeing Alice crawling naked on a floor in part one; some imagined lesbian tension between her and Jill Valentine in part two; Alice in sexy shorts in part three and Alice in latex in 3-D in part four.
I’m guessing director Paul W.S. Anderson pulled a George Lucas and went back to the series to add all this viral outbreak and zombie stuff. Resident Evil: Retribution opens in theaters on Sept. 14.
Paramount Pictures has released the first full-length trailer for the fourth installment in its Halloween horror franchise Paranormal Activity. The creepy clip introduces a pretty blonde neighbor as the film’s new victim and reveals that the action will pick up where Paranormal Activity 2 left off.
Directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman return to helm the project. The duo, first known for their 2010 social media suspense thriller Catfish, shot Paranormal Activity 3 for a reported $5 million, and watched as it grossed over $200 million worldwide, making it the most profitable film in the franchise.
Paranormal Activity 4 arrives in theaters on Oct. 19.
Vanessa Hudgens (Sucker Punch) has joined Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills, a sequel to the director’s 2010 grind-house actioner Machete. Not much is know about Hudgens’ role in the film other than her character’s name is Cereza.
Machete Kills follows the ex-Federale as he’s recruited by the U.S. government to bring down a billionaire arms dealer and a drug cartel kingpin threatening global warfare with a high-tech space weapon. Shot in Austin, Texas, the film is slated for release next year.
Hudgens will next be seen playing a teen hooker/survivor in the serial killer Robert Hansen biopic Frozen Ground opposite John Cusack, Nicolas Cage and Radha Mitchell.
“Wonderfalls” star Caroline Dhavernas has joined the cast of NBC’s “Hannibal,” an hour-long crime drama chronicling the early days of Hannibal Lecter, the notorious cannibal/serial killer first introduced in the Thomas Harris novels “Red Dragon” and “Silence of the Lambs.”
Bryan Fuller, creator of ABC’s Emmy-winning series “Pushing Daisies” and Showtime’s “Dead Like Me,” is penning “Hannibal,” which stars Mads Mikkelsen as the eponymous villain, Hugh Dancy as FBI agent Will Graham, Aaron Abrams as forensic investigator Brian Zeller and Lawrence Fishburne as Jack Crawford.
According to THR, Dhavernas will play Dr. Alana Bloom, a Chicago-based psychology professor and FBI profiler who befriends Graham and falls for Crawford. Her previous genre creds include the Adrien Brody vehicle Wrecked and producer M. Night Shyamalan’s Devil.
A trailer for writer/director Josh Stolberg’s new indie frightener Crawlspace has gone online. The Vuguru production stars Lori Loughlin (“Full House”) and Jonathan Silverman (Weekend at Bernie’s) as a married couple who soon discover that Steven Weber (“Wings”) is living inside the walls of their new home.
Costarring in the flick are Sterling Beaumon (young Benjamin Linus on “LOST”) and a bikini/panty-clad Nikki Moore (Sorority Row) as the couple’s children. Look for Crawlspace later this year on VOD, Netflix, HULU, and various other digital platforms.
Well Go USA has set a Sept. 25 home video release date for director-producer Jonathan Glendening’s (13 HRS)Strippers vs. Werewolves. The U.K. production follows a pack of vengeful lycans as they hunt down the lap dancers responsible for killing one of their kin.
Costars in the film include horror icon Robert Englund and a bevy of half-naked babes including Barbara Nedeljekova (Hostel), Sarah Douglas (Return of the Living Dead 3), Ali Bastian (”Hollyoaks”), Charlie Bond (Riot) and top-heavy British model Lucy Pinder in her feature film debut.
Open Road has released the first trailer for Silent Hill: Revelation, the long-awaited Silent Hill sequel from producers Samuel Hadida and Don Carmody (Resident Evil: Afterlife). Adelaide Clemens (Vampire) stars as Heather Mason, an 18-year-old girl tormented by nightmares and the disappearance of her father.
Kaitlyn Leeb, the 24-year-old stunner cast as the three-breasted hooker in Columbia Pictures soon-to-be-released Total Recall remake, is speaking out about the iconic role and the reactions people had after seeing her at Comic-Con while in character, complete with boobie prosthetics.
There were a bunch of people at Comic Con asking if I had surgery for the third one. Others thought that the two on the side were real.
I guess that’s the one thing that bothers me the most is that they think I’m out there prancing around Comic Con with my breasts out. They really are not mine.
Leeb tells the site that her new found fame is “crazy and exciting at the same time.” She knows fans of the original have been waiting to know if the three-breasted hooker was going to be in the remake, but up until now had been sworn to secrecy.
They didn’t want to release too early that there would be a three-breasted woman from the original. It was hush-hush. I had to fly to Los Angeles a couple of times last June and July to do the body cast to create the three breasts and my agent said ‘Don’t tell anyone!’
Horror fans will, of course, recognize Leeb from her doomed, naked-lesbian turn in the crazy-fun 2011 slasher Wrong Turn 4. Total Recall arrives in theaters on Aug. 3.
Lady Gaga wrapped her scenes as La Chameleon today in Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills, a sequel to the director’s 2010 grind-house actioner Machete. Rodriguez broke the news today—and revealed the poster seen above—on his Twitter feed.
Rodriguez tweets:
I just finished working with @Lady Gaga on @MacheteKills, she kicked SO MUCH ASS! Holy Smokes. Blown away!
Machete Kills follows Machete as he’s recruited by the U.S. government to bring down a billionaire arms dealer (Gibson) plotting global warfare with a high-tech space weapon. The film is currently shooting in Austin, Texas for a 2013 release.
Magnolia Pictures has released the first full-length trailer for its upcoming Sapphic werewolf thriller Jack & Diane, starring indie-darling Juno Temple (Killer Joe) and Elvis Presley’s model-turned-actress granddaughter Riley Keough (Mad Max: Fury Road).
Jack and Diane follows Jack (Keough), a harden New York City dyke, as she attempts to keep her latest conquest Diane (Temple) from leaving town. What Jack doesn’t know is that Diane’s lesbian-awakening has unleashed her animalistic nature.
Jack and Diane arrives on VOD on Sept. 28 and in theaters for a limited run on Nov. 2. The film is rated R for nudity.
